I find no satisfaction playing against bots.
Just trying to find a game is difficult enough.
When I do, it's half full of bots.
128 player game in Breakthrough and there are a couple of dozen players all up, and at least half are bots.
The game is dead.
@FlatChat I'm in WA too, Xbox X player and have massive problems (cross-play on). After about 9pm Perth time, I'm waiting for players to kick off a game (I'm waiting right now and have been for half an hour - hence on the forums digesting the hate from the BF community). When I do get in a game it's populated by around 70% AI. I just don't understand why when they have no problems filling up a game with bots they don't just kick it off with a few players and replace bots as players join? (actually, there is so much I don't understand about this game)
@Squiddles5312 Good to see a fellow Groper on the forum (keep 'em guessing...lol).
Actually I was playing from 8PM to 9PM (my bedtime...5AM rise) last night (31/1). I got into a few 128 Breakthrough games pretty well straight away, and there didn't seem to be any bots. I know there were players from Oz from the chat. But on other nights, there were clearly players in the US which I could also tell from the chat.
The times that I find lots of bots in 2042 are weekdays, at least in the mornings until early afternoon, which is kind of surprising, as I would have thought that is when there would be more players online in Oz. Certainly that is my experience playing BFV when the server browser showed Oz games full at those times (not so much early morning), leaving only Indonesian servers (more of them and lower ping, in Perth anyway due to geographic proximity). The Indo servers were actually pretty good, plenty of them and fast, no lag and heaps of players (mainly Indonesian) who were usually pretty good solo, but lack team play skills (no reviving at all). A cultural difference I think. I know many Oz players who preferred the Indo servers, despite the team play and language/communication issue in chat. They just wanted to PLAY HARD.
Apart from the really poor sterile maps, I really miss the server browser so that I know where and who I'm playing. That was a BIG mistake for DICE/EA not to include it in 2042.
I certainly agree that we shouldn't be waiting for games (sometimes I have to quit and go back to the lobby and try again several times) and that the fillers (idiotic characters and their lines, animations etc) in between games are HUGE TIME WASTERS. People just don't have time to sit there waiting to get into a quick game...very frustrating.
So having the ability to jump into a game, even if just full of bots would be far better than sitting there waiting and not knowing whether you will get into a game at all. I imagine that no more than 50% of my time in 2042 is actually playing the game. That is a pretty poor state of play. In BF V and 1, I could always find a game, if not in Oz, then in Indonesia.
On a side note: As much as I enjoy posting here on EA Answers, I find it extremely frustrating that this is all in vain in regard to making the game better. I have yet to hear any devs on this forum. It's as though we are offering up all this rich dialog and feedback that the devs could use, but alas there is not the slightest hint that is the case. Hello?
@FlatChat (lol@sandgropers - they probably think we have a fetish for dirt!)
Yeah, omitting server browsers is one of the more questionable "Legacy Features" the EA Dice team decided upon! I'm not going to repeat the sentement of so many comments throughout the forums that I read whilst waiting over an hour to try and get into a game last night (9:30pm to 10:45pm, Breakthrough, crossplay enabled and my wife calling me * for persisting so long to try and play a game). I tried everything including reseting my router, restarting my Xbox Series X and as a last resort I thought I'd play a Portal game just so I could have a game before I went to bed and despite the server saying there were 38/64 players in a Rush game, the same thing happened - "waiting for other players" with a full squad.
This leads me to believe that despite the fact that players have abandoned the game like rats off a sinking ship, this is probably yet another serious bug in the networking code that yep, frustrates more players to uninstalling and moving on.
I shut down my system last night and said to my wife, "Yep, Battlefield is dead" 😢
@Squiddles5312 @FlatChat Perthian here too, I'm normally stuck working late and don't get to game until 11pm and I've had the same problems since the start of December.
At this stage it means the only time I am able to find a server with enough players is on weekends, that is if I don't want to wait for 30 minutes to play a game before giving up.
The worst part about BF2042 is the reception to the game has been so bad its actually reduced the player numbers for all Battlefield games in Aus xbox wise.
Previously BFV which I was never much of a fan of (but played since it had the most populated servers), generally sat behind Sea of Thieves or Destiny in terms of players - usually top 10 to 15 games on the xbox most played games list. It had been this way for the last 8 years with BF4, BF1 and then BFV all hovering around this spot.
Last year at around 11pm there would generally be 4 or 5 populated servers running BFV (2 or 3 in strategic conquest, 2 or 3 in tactical conquest).
There were also still enough players to find populated servers for BF4 on weekends and a lot of the time on weekdays.
Since BF2042 came out, players moved from BFV to BF2042, but after leaving BF2042 only a fraction has returned to BFV, most have left to other games.
Now both games barely make top 50 most played, and its hard to get into a populated game of BFV past 9pm, but still easier getting into a game than it is with BF2042.
So not only is BF2042 disappointing for many, its killed off the other games in the series in less populated regions.
@Squiddles5312 @Ga-Knomboe_Boy Yep, I reinstalled BF V and BF 1 only to find very few games in this region now. I think there is only one BF 1 server in our region that has a reasonable number of players, and that is full most times I have looked.
I'm starting to think what people have turned to after the 2042 shemozzles. Hell Let Loose? I've heard and seen some good things about Escape From Tarkov.
The maps look great, and I like the idea of the mixed FPS/RPG realistic hardcore with proper ballistic physics, weapon operation and weights. Its a different game for sure, and with a learning curve to match...
@FlatChat EfT looks cool but it's no Battlefield (nor is 2042) and being a part-time gamer between running a business and family commitments I only ever had time for one or two games and BF was always number one for me. RIP
